Afghanistan: Taliban bans women from entering parks
Nov 13, 2022, at 02:17 am
Kabul: The Taliban government of Afghanistan has now restricted women’s access to public parks in the country, an episode showcasing the hardships imposed on women by the regime.
Women demonstrate in Kabul over Mahsa Amini's death, Taliban fire into air disperse protesters
Oct 01, 2022, at 01:23 am
Kabul: The Taliban forces shot in the air to disperse the women protesters who had assembled in front of the Iranian Embassy in Kabul to demonstrate against the death of Mahsa Amini.
Afghanistan: Taliban directs shops not to sell things to women not wearing Hijab
Aug 31, 2022, at 08:37 pm
In yet another bizarre diktat, the Taliban Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice officials have allegedly warned shopkeepers in Mazar-e-Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh province in northern Afghanistan, not to sell anything to women who are not wearing hijab.
First Person: Heartbroken but hopeful, under Taliban rule in Afghanistan
Aug 19, 2022, at 07:06 pm
Zarina* is a young Afghan woman entrepreneur. Her drive for innovating, and passion for baking made her one of Afghanistan’s youngest entrepreneurs. Her business is still running, but her clients are scarce and her plans for expansion across the country had to be shut down.
UN agencies recommitment to women, girls in Afghanistan one year after Taliban takeover
Aug 16, 2022, at 09:05 pm
A year of Taliban rule in Afghanistan has led to a deterioration in the lives of women and girls, affecting all aspects of their human rights, three UN agencies reported on Monday.
Afghanistan: Humanitarian assistance has saved lives, but immense needs remain
Aug 12, 2022, at 11:02 pm
New York: Despite an unprecedented scale-up in assistance in Afghanistan over the past year, immense needs still exist and the future looks bleak, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said on Thursday.
In Afghanistan, women take their lives out of desperation, Human Rights Council hears
Jul 02, 2022, at 06:02 pm
New York: The situation for women is so desperate in Afghanistan that they are committing suicide at a rate of one or two every day, the Human Rights Council has heard.
Afghanistan: Taliban orders women to stay home; cover up in public
May 08, 2022, at 11:46 pm
New York: The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) issued a statement of deep concern on Saturday in response to an announcement made by the Taliban de facto authorities saying that women should only leave their homes in cases of necessity and then, with their faces covered in public.
Afghanistan: Taliban passes decree which forces women to wear burqa
May 07, 2022, at 11:00 pm
Kabul: The Taliban administration of Afghanistan has issued yet another tough decree by which women of the country need to wear burqa in public.
Afghanistan: Women can only enter parks for three days in a week, directs Taliban
Mar 28, 2022, at 01:10 am
Kabul: The Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan issued yet another bizarre diktat by which women can only go to parks three days a week while men are given four days in the country.
Taliban’s backtracking on girls’ education, ‘deeply damaging’
Mar 25, 2022, at 04:17 pm
New York: Following a U-turn over re-opening girls’ secondary schools in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the UN human rights chief shared her “profound frustration and disappointment” that six months after the Taliban seized power, high school girls have yet to return to the classroom.
Over one million Afghan women, children addicted to narcotics: Taliban
Mar 11, 2022, at 10:19 pm
A key Afghanistan Taliban leader has said there are over one million Afghan women, children addicted to narcotics in the country.
Women must be given space to lead if Afghanistan is to find peace: Bachelet
Mar 11, 2022, at 04:09 pm
New York: Whether as peacebuilders, humanitarians or pivotal actors courageously pushing their communities forward, Afghan women must be given the space to lead if the country is to find peace and progress, the UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet stressed in a statement on Thursday.
Six women’s rights activists still missing in Afghanistan
Feb 02, 2022, at 07:08 pm
New York: The UN human rights office OHCHR, has said it is very alarmed over the continued disappearance of six people who were abducted in the Afghan capital Kabul, in connection with recent women’s rights protests.
European Parliament to host “Afghan Women Days”
Jan 31, 2022, at 12:40 am
Brussels: The European Parliament will organise a series of events to shine a light on the dire situation faced by women in Afghanistan this week.
Afghanistan: NGO women ‘threatened with shooting’ for not wearing burqa
Jan 24, 2022, at 01:23 am
Kabul: Two international NGO workers have claimed that Taliban religious police have threatened to shoot the women NGO workers if they are found not wearing burqa in Badghis province of Afghanistan, media reports said.
Experts decry measures to ‘steadily erase’ Afghan women and girls from public life
Jan 18, 2022, at 06:14 pm
New York: Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, independent UN human rights experts warned on Monday.
Two women die in house blast in E Afghan province :Official
Jan 12, 2022, at 10:03 pm
Kabul/UNI/Xinhua: Two women lost their lives and a teenage girl was seriously wounded when remnants of war exploded in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar, a local official confirmed on Wednesday.
Afghanistan women start writing protest slogans on Kabul walls
Jan 11, 2022, at 08:49 pm
Kabul: A group of Afghanistan women and even activists have resorted to a new way of demonstrating against Taliban forces as they are writing on the walls of Kabul to voice their protests.
Afghanistan: Taliban bans women from appearing in television dramas
Nov 22, 2021, at 08:59 pm
Kabul/IBNS: The Taliban in Afghanistan have imposed new restrictions in the war-torn south Asian country by which women will not be allowed to appear in television dramas.
Afghanistan: Girls at increasing risk of child marriage
Nov 13, 2021, at 06:37 pm
New York:The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has received credible reports of families in Afghanistan offering daughters as young as 20 days old for future marriage in return for a dowry.
Seven members of only Jewish family of Afghanistan leave Taliban-controlled country
Oct 29, 2021, at 11:13 pm
Kabul: The only Jewish community members of Afghanistan have left the country recently, a month after the Afghanistan government was formed by the Taliban forces, media reports said on Friday.
Afghanistan: Women protest on streets of Kabul against Taliban over closure of schools for girls
Oct 26, 2021, at 10:55 pm
Several women assembled on the streets of Kabul on Tuesday to demonstrate against closure of school for girls in Afghanistan.
Women protest in Kabul for not opening doors of schools for girls
Oct 23, 2021, at 03:42 am
Kabul: Women demonstrated in Kabul city on Thursday against Taliban rule for not opening the doors of schools for girls, media reports said on Friday.
Afghanistan women demonstrate in Kabul against closure of schools, universities for female students
Oct 01, 2021, at 10:13 pm
Kabul: A group of Afghanistan women demonstrated in Kabul city on Friday to protest against the closure of schools and universities for female students.
Afghanistan: Women run Kabul restaurants shuts down as Taliban rules country
Sep 24, 2021, at 10:52 pm
Women-owned restaurants and cafes in Afghanistan's Kabul city have remained closed since the past month after Taliban took control over the country.
Afghanistan: ‘Palpable’ fear of ‘brutal and systemic repression’ of women grows
Sep 22, 2021, at 09:33 pm
New York: Since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan last month, they have made some commitments to uphold human rights. However, their subsequent actions have “sadly contradicted” those promises, the UN rights chief told a side event of the General Assembly on Tuesday.
Afghanistan: Women protest in Kabul against Taliban's policies
Sep 20, 2021, at 03:40 pm
Kabul: A large number of women gathered outside the gate of the ministry of women affairs, a ministry which has now been changed by Taliban, on Sunday and protested against the policy of the insurgent.
Sep 19, 2021, at 12:16 am
Kabul: Since capturing power more than a month ago the Taliban has been imposing restrictive rules for women’s education in universities and schools in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan: Security Council resolution calls for ‘equal and meaningful participation of women’
Sep 18, 2021, at 11:21 pm
New York: The Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Friday, specifying the importance of “equal and meaningful participation” of women in public life.